So last month we were audited by the Oregon Employment Department. We were, of course, terrified–mostly we were racking our brain for anything we might have done wrong. They assured us that it was a routine audit–that our number just came up–yet we were suspicious. How could we not be suspicious? Surely in our ineptitude we had done something egregiously wrong!
So they did our audit, and lo and behold, after they had finished crunching a bunch of numbers, they wrote us a check! We had paid them TOO MUCH MONEY. And furthermore, after cutting us a check, they made us feel all warm & fuzzy by telling us that we were one of the cleanest companies they had ever audited. Hooray for us!
Apparently, the payroll service we were using had Andrea and I paying unemployment insurance, even though we’re self-employed and weren’t legally obligated to pay it. This had been going on for three years, so we got three years worth of UI money back, a good chunk of change.
Now, the devil that hangs out over my right shoulder is saying, hey, clean equals stupid–what are all these dirty tricks that other businesses know about that we don’t? Why are we sending all this money to Halliburton when it could be going back into our own pockets? But I’m trying to squish the devil and not look a gift horse in the mouth.